August 29, Tussah Silkworm Breeding Demonstration Park, Xiatang Town, Lushan County, Henan Province The Zapo slope is lush and green, and Li Guoming, an old silkworm farmer, is observing the growth of autumn silkworms. Each silkworm baby enjoys the “delicious meal” of oak leaves, looking very delicate and cute. “It takes more than a month for silkworm cocoons to be harvested,” said silkworm farmer Li Guoming.
Lushan County has a total area of 2,432 square kilometers and is known as the “Seven Known as “mountains and rivers, two fields”, the vast and dense tussah forest provides rich and fresh “gourmet” raw materials for tussah silkworm breeding. The county has 1.37 million acres of Zapo resources. More than 800,000 acres are suitable for raising tussah silkworms. Currently, 386,000 acres can be used to raise silkworms in Zapo.
In recent years, Lushan County has actively responded to the national “One Belt, One Road” initiative, implements the “Two Mountains” theory, relies on abundant resource advantages, and actively implements the sericulture development strategy of “grasping science and technology, building bases, developing leaders, and promoting services” , taking various measures to promote the sericulture specialty industry to become bigger and stronger.
Lushan County Sericulture Development Service Center supplies silkworm seeds to silkworm farmers In the early years, subsidies were provided for the purchase of silkworm seeds. In recent years, they have been provided to silkworm farmers for free, and they have coordinated with the forestry department to handle slope cutting procedures. Insist on docking with agricultural insurance companies to purchase insurance for farmers raising silkworms to resolve production risks caused by major natural disasters and tussah diseases and insect pests, provide guarantee for the development of sericulture production, and solve the worries of sericulture farmers.
Every year, Lushan County will mobilize from the release of silkworm seeds to stocking. Technical personnel provide voluntary guidance to sericulture farmers throughout the production process, carry out activities to send science and technology to the countryside, and widely publicize practical sericulture technology and management experience to reduce risks as much as possible. Drones are also used to monitor and manage silkworm slopes, and an ecologically friendly tussah slope is constructed in a unified manner, with medium and high trunks as the mainstay and low trunks (no trunks) as the supplement, so that the oak tree resources can be transformed into economic advantages while maintaining a good ecology and realizing Lucid waters and green mountains are the win-win goal of Jinshan and Yinshan.
“To raise silkworms for one season, you need to move the farm four or five times. The harvest is good when the weather is good, and the hardship is worth it, but in bad years, the losses will be great. However, the silkworm slopes are free, and the silkworm seeds are given free of charge, and the government also protects the purchase price. As long as you pay enough attention, a pound of silkworm seeds If you can harvest about 250 kilograms of silkworm cocoons, you can easily sell them for 8,000 yuan.” Wang Guijun, a villager in Songshuzhuang Village, Xiatang Town, said that he has been raising silkworms for more than 40 years, and his family has built a three-story Western-style building. Most of his relatives are also engaged in silkworm raising.
According to the person in charge of the Lushan County Sericulture Development Service Center, The county’s tussah stocking area is 80,000 acres year-round, with a stocking capacity of 1,000 kilograms, 500 acres of mulberry gardens, and 600 silkworms. In 2022, 1,084.5 kilograms of tussah silkworms will be stocked in the county, the output value of fresh tussah silkworm cocoons will be nearly 30 million yuan, and the average household income from sericulture will exceed 30,000 yuan.
In addition, Lu ShanSilk is hand-made with about 30 steps, and the process is cumbersome. Lushan County has extensively recruited folk artists and adopted a combination of old, middle and young people to teach and teach, so that this ancient handicraft can be passed on.
As a typical integrated tussah main production area in the country, national silk production Base County, important base for tussah breeding and production in Henan ProvinceCounty, Lushan County has long provided high-quality cocoon and silk products for foreign trade, and has made great contributions to the export of my country’s cocoon and silk products to earn foreign exchange.
Lushan County adheres to the principles of strengthening the main body, cultivating brands, promoting integration, With the concept of improving efficiency, we strive to create the local image of “the source of the Silk Road and the capital of home textiles”. On April 23, 2023, Lushan County was named the province’s first “Hometown of Silk Culture in Henan Province”, and the Henan Silk Culture Research Center was established at the same time. In June, the county was awarded the honor of “Chinese Tussah Capital” by the China Forestry Industry Federation.
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